I made something simple for this: http://stuff.hanula.com/starhub/ and me too, I also wish GH had some easier way to navigate and arrange your bookmarks. StarHub was primarily built for fast search.
GitHub is a tremendous source of code and projects. Great for everyday work, inspiration and learning. Nice extension and too bad it's for Chrome only.
I've recently hacked a quick app for fast access to GitHub stars [1], just because I needed it so badly, although you (currently) can't tag repositories, only save your searches.
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Over 15 year of experience. Love to tinker, learn, build, explore and make the difference. Solid software engineer, full-stack developer, I work with many tools and environments but Web/Python/Backend is my favorite.
That's exactly my case. I needed a way to (really) quickly browse my stars. Instant filter can save a lot of time. I hope GitHub will add something like that in the future.
As I am currently looking for work, I had to update my resume, but then I decided simple text processor would be just boring and I created themed HTML/PDF resume generator in Python that takes simple YAML data file. It worked pretty good.
There is already JSON Resume [0] initiative but YAML feels much more natural when writing semi-structured text.
First of all, it's great that you are sharing this publicly. It's a big first step to recovery. I can't tell you much as I'm only 31 and I enjoy alcohol, sometimes in larger doses but it's part of my culture and local way of life.
I can only tell you that beating the thing called "alcoholism" is to decide to stop drinking. That's it. My father after many years did it, one day, just like that. No one belived him. He's over 60 now and enjoys alcohol in very normal way. My friend, also 31, quit drinking completely 3-4 years ago and he was a person who drunk unbelievable amounts, even to me, just crazy. Now because of health problems he's 100% sober and he's fine! He's happy and can enjoy everything he was doing before.
So. People will tell you that it is a disease, that you are sick and you won't be able to quit on your own.. Wrong. It's only about you, your decision, your life. Take care and ask yourself some hard questions. Self-awareness and self-acceptance is the key.
I've received similar email about possible integration with Pyramid framework last week. So I created sample package [1] but haven't got any reply yet.. Hate when people don't respond to emails.
[1] https://github.com/hanula/pyramid_predictionio
Thanks for pointing that out, so I can specify more on the topic. It's exactly why I'm astounded as everything back in 1998 looked like going into worse and ever since, I only hear how the level of education goes lower and lower (exact science especially; math and physics).
I cannot give you specific sources as I find it from time to time while listening to podcasts about popular-science and technology where highly skilled and respected professors complain sometimes about current education level and the lack of plan for the future.
I would say the same, it's quite a shock read such a statement. On the other side I value my education I had in Poland only because it was hard sometimes and I was looking into how to hack the system and outsmart teachers' questions/assignments (math especially). Education system I had ten years ago was focused on memorization, "soft" subjects and skills (languages, first language) while math and physics weren't valued that much.
On a maturity exam in 1998 we had an option (for the first time for everyone in the country), to choose between old style exam (Polish and second subject) and new style with obligatory math, much more tests and subjects, everything you could easily pass if you just know how to think. Old style was all about evaluation of how much did you remember from past 4 years... I was the only one in the whole school to choose the new form, where everyone else picked up this dumb but safe archaic form.
I could also say a lot about technical universities in Poland.. I didn't graduate actually, after spending over 8 years there, failing stupid, uninteresting subjects, fighting stubborn teachers. Had great scores in subjects that actually interested me. This education system forces you to learn unnecessary things, to remember results and less to know the thinking process. Angry and mentally ill teachers making you suffer for minor or no reason at all. I know plenty of fellow countrymen similar process made them stronger but saying our system is good is far fetched.